What World Solve is
World Solve is a living, citable index of unsolved problems — written one line at a time by Team Humans Club, a global collective of builders, researchers, and entrepreneurs. We do not solve the problems here. We Democratize Innovation.
For builders
Skip the search for a problem worth your time. Browse a vetted, growing list and start where the gap is real.
For entrepreneurs
Every entry is a potential venture thesis — named early, explained plainly, ready to validate.
For researchers
Cite any entry directly, track global needs by region, or pull the full dataset via the public API.
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We haven't solved how to prevent excessive consumer debt from being marketed aggressively to financially vulnerable people.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Credit products are sometimes marketed most aggressively to people least able to manage the resulting debt responsibly. Stronger protections that don't cut off access entirely remain a difficult, unresolved balance.
Citation ID: WS00346
Title: We haven't solved how to prevent excessive consumer debt from being marketed aggressively to financially vulnerable people.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=346
We can't yet make renewable energy financing accessible to poorer countries at fair interest rates.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Developing countries often pay significantly higher interest rates for clean energy projects than wealthier nations, slowing their transition away from fossil fuels. Fairer, more accessible financing remains a major unresolved barrier.
Citation ID: WS00345
Title: We can't yet make renewable energy financing accessible to poorer countries at fair interest rates.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=345
We don't have a reliable way to ensure fair wages keep pace with the rising cost of living in most economies.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Wages in many countries have grown more slowly than housing, healthcare, and food costs over the past few decades, steadily eroding real purchasing power. Reversing this trend remains a central unresolved economic challenge.
Citation ID: WS00344
Title: We don't have a reliable way to ensure fair wages keep pace with the rising cost of living in most economies.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=344
We haven't found a way to prevent excessive market concentration in the global seed and agriculture supply industry.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
A small number of large companies control a significant share of the world's seed and agricultural input supply, raising concerns about farmer dependency and pricing power. More diverse, resilient supply structures remain underdeveloped.
Citation ID: WS00343
Title: We haven't found a way to prevent excessive market concentration in the global seed and agriculture supply industry.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=343
We can't yet make affordable childcare accessible enough to support working parents' ability to stay in the workforce.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
High childcare costs push many parents, disproportionately mothers, out of the workforce entirely or into reduced hours. Making quality childcare broadly affordable remains an unresolved economic and social policy gap.
Citation ID: WS00342
Title: We can't yet make affordable childcare accessible enough to support working parents' ability to stay in the workforce.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=342
We don't have a fair global approach to managing the transition away from fossil fuel jobs.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Workers and entire regional economies built around coal, oil, and gas face major disruption as the world shifts to cleaner energy. A fair, well-funded transition plan for these communities remains incomplete in most countries.
Citation ID: WS00341
Title: We don't have a fair global approach to managing the transition away from fossil fuel jobs.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=341
We can't yet guarantee equal access to quality public education regardless of a family's neighborhood or income.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
School funding tied to local property taxes in many places creates stark differences in educational quality based purely on geography. Equalizing this access remains a persistent, unresolved policy challenge in many countries.
Citation ID: WS00340
Title: We can't yet guarantee equal access to quality public education regardless of a family's neighborhood or income.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=340
We don't have a reliable way to prevent conflicts of interest among regulators overseeing the industries they once worked in.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Regulators sometimes come from, or later move into, the very industries they oversee, raising ongoing concerns about impartiality. Structural solutions to this revolving door problem remain inconsistently applied.
Citation ID: WS00339
Title: We don't have a reliable way to prevent conflicts of interest among regulators overseeing the industries they once worked in.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=339
We haven't solved how to make government budgeting processes transparent enough for citizens to fully understand spending decisions.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Government budgets are often too complex or poorly communicated for the average citizen to meaningfully track or understand. Better transparency tools could improve both trust and accountability in public spending.
Citation ID: WS00338
Title: We haven't solved how to make government budgeting processes transparent enough for citizens to fully understand spending decisions.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=338
We can't yet ensure that public health messaging is trusted equally across all communities.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Historical mistreatment and inconsistent messaging have left some communities more distrustful of public health guidance than others, undermining response to outbreaks and vaccination campaigns. Rebuilding this trust remains a slow, unresolved process.
Citation ID: WS00337
Title: We can't yet ensure that public health messaging is trusted equally across all communities.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=337
We don't have a consistent international standard for protecting children online across different platforms and countries.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Rules protecting children online vary significantly by country and platform, leaving major gaps that put young users at risk. A more consistent global standard remains politically and technically difficult to establish.
Citation ID: WS00336
Title: We don't have a consistent international standard for protecting children online across different platforms and countries.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=336
We haven't found a way to prevent misinformation from spreading specifically during natural disasters.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
False information about disaster response, shelters, or aid can spread rapidly during emergencies, sometimes putting lives at further risk. Faster, trusted communication channels during crises remain underdeveloped in many regions.
Citation ID: WS00335
Title: We haven't found a way to prevent misinformation from spreading specifically during natural disasters.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=335
We can't yet ensure that public consultations on major projects genuinely reflect community input rather than just formality.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Public hearings and consultations are often required by law but sometimes function more as formalities than genuine two-way input processes. Making these processes truly meaningful remains an unresolved governance challenge.
Citation ID: WS00334
Title: We can't yet ensure that public consultations on major projects genuinely reflect community input rather than just formality.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=334
We don't have a fair, consistent way to regulate facial recognition technology used by governments and companies.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Facial recognition is being deployed in policing, retail, and public spaces with vastly different rules depending on location, raising serious privacy and bias concerns. Consistent, fair regulation remains largely unbuilt.
Citation ID: WS00333
Title: We don't have a fair, consistent way to regulate facial recognition technology used by governments and companies.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=333
We haven't solved how to make mental health support for children as normalized as physical health checkups.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Children's mental health needs are often noticed later than physical ones, partly due to stigma and inconsistent screening in schools and pediatric care. Normalizing early mental health checkups remains an unmet goal in most systems.
Citation ID: WS00332
Title: We haven't solved how to make mental health support for children as normalized as physical health checkups.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=332
We can't yet fully explain why certain cancers are becoming more common in younger adults.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Rates of some cancers are rising among people under fifty for reasons researchers don't yet fully understand, spanning diet, environment, and other unknown factors. Identifying the cause is a necessary first step toward prevention.
Citation ID: WS00331
Title: We can't yet fully explain why certain cancers are becoming more common in younger adults.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=331
We don't have a scalable way to detect and treat vision problems in children before they affect learning.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Undiagnosed vision problems in children can quietly affect school performance for years before being caught. Early, affordable screening at scale remains unavailable in many school systems worldwide.
Citation ID: WS00330
Title: We don't have a scalable way to detect and treat vision problems in children before they affect learning.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=330
We haven't found a way to prevent the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture from accelerating drug resistance.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Antibiotics are widely used in livestock farming to prevent disease and promote growth, contributing significantly to antibiotic resistance in humans. Reducing this use without harming farmers' livelihoods remains a persistent unresolved challenge.
Citation ID: WS00329
Title: We haven't found a way to prevent the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture from accelerating drug resistance.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=329
We can't yet make dental care affordable and accessible to the same degree as general medical care.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
Dental problems can affect overall health significantly, yet dental care is often separated from general healthcare systems and priced out of reach for many. Closing this gap remains an overlooked but serious healthcare access issue.
Citation ID: WS00328
Title: We can't yet make dental care affordable and accessible to the same degree as general medical care.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=328
We don't have an effective way to treat long COVID symptoms that persist for months or years.
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Global / Unspecified, Global
A meaningful share of people who contracted COVID-19 continue experiencing fatigue, brain fog, or other symptoms long after recovery, with no reliably effective treatment yet available. This remains a significant and only partially understood health burden.
Citation ID: WS00327
Title: We don't have an effective way to treat long COVID symptoms that persist for months or years.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=327
